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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that #NASA collected from #asteroid #Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose. The chemistry that produced them might be going on today on the ice moons of #Jupiter and #Saturn.
“Our odds of finding life elsewhere are increasing,” said Daniel Glavin, a senior scientist for sample return at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
nytimes.com/2025/01/29/science
archive.ph/us0yc #SETI

The New York Times · Life’s Building Blocks Lurked Inside NASA’s Bennu Asteroid SamplesBy Carl Zimmer
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients

Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life, as well as a history of saltwater that could have served as the “broth” for these compounds to interact and combine.

#Bennu #life

nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-as

NASANASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients - NASAStudies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and
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theconversation.com/decouverte
Un environnement saumâtre et riche en carbone sur l’ancêtre de l’astéroïde #Bennu était propice à l’assemblage d’éléments constitutifs de la vie.

En octobre 2020, un vaisseau spatial robotisé s’est posé sur cet #astéroïde de 525 mètres de large à 320M de km de la Terre

La mission OSIRIS-REx de la #NASA a recueilli un précieux échantillon de poussière et de petits cailloux affleurant cette surface, après avoir passé deux ans à orbiter autour de l’astéroïde pour l’imager

The ConversationDécouverte d’eau salée et d’acides aminés sur un astéroïde, un pas de plus pour comprendre l’émergence de la vieDeux nouvelles études montrent qu’un environnement saumâtre et riche en carbone sur l’ancêtre de l’astéroïde Bennu était propice à l’assemblage d’éléments constitutifs de la vie.
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❛❛ #adenine #guanine #cytosine #thymine & #uracil … necessary to build #DNA & #RNA … traces of important organic compounds like xanthine, hypoxanthine, & nicotinic acid (#vitamin B3).
In addition to suggesting that life could exist elsewhere in the #universe, the #molecules found on Bennu raise provocative questions about the #origins of #life on #Earth. ❜❜

#Bennu #asteroid was discovered in 1999 & sampled in 2020.

🔗 Salon.com/2025/01/30/building- 2025 Jan 30
🔗 Wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Benn

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